Eli5: Why hasn’t the U.S constitution been amended since 1992?
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It’s extremely difficult to amend. Too difficult according to this Supreme Court Justice:
> fewer than 2 percent of the population could prevent enactment of a constitutional amendment. “It ought to be hard, but not that hard,”
Who said that? Some ultra liberal? Nope.
None other than the modern conservative godfather of the US Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia:
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/how_scalia_and_ginsburg_would_amend_the_constitution
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